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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2005
Applicants:
Calvin Y. Liu, Irvine, CA (US);
Sheng-chiao Chang, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Calvin Y. Liu, Irvine, CA (US);
Sheng-Chiao Chang, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An improved system, apparatus, and method for securing a network using MAC address filtering is provided. Advantageously, the present invention does not require that a client computer be powered on, and instead provides an efficient user interface for displaying a requestor's MAC address and for allowing or denying the device with an associated MAC address access to the network. Parameters per allowed MAC address may also be provided.